Editing July Revolution (section)

=== Thursday, 29 July 1830: Day Three ===
[[File:Révolution de 1830 - Combat de la rue de Rohan - 29.07.1830.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''Battle at the Rue de Rohan'', by [[Hippolyte Lecomte]]]]

<blockquote>"They (the king and ministers) do not come to Paris", wrote the poet, novelist and playwright [[Alfred de Vigny]], "people are dying for them ... Not one prince has appeared. The poor men of the guard abandoned without orders, without bread for two days, hunted everywhere and fighting."<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Vigny |first=Alfred |title=Journal d'un poète |title-link=s:fr:Journal d’un poète |year=1867 |pages=33 |language=fr}}</ref></blockquote>

Perhaps for the same reason, royalists were nowhere to be found; perhaps another reason was that now the ''révoltés'' were well organized and very well armed. In only a day and a night, over 4,000 barricades had been thrown up throughout the city. The tricolor flag of the revolutionaries – the "people's flag" – flew over buildings, an increasing number of them important buildings.

[[File:Arrivée du Duc d'Orléans au Palais-Royal.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''The arrival of the duc d'Orléans (Louis Phillipe) at the [[Palais-Royal]]'', by Jean-Baptiste Carbillet]]

Marmont lacked either the initiative or the presence of mind to call for additional troops from Saint-Denis, Vincennes, Lunéville, or Saint-Omer; neither did he ask for help from reservists or those Parisians still loyal to Charles X. The Bourbon opposition and supporters of the July Revolution swarmed to his headquarters demanding the arrest of Polignac and the other ministers, while supporters of the Bourbon and city leaders demanded he arrest the rioters and their puppet masters. Marmont refused to act on either request, instead awaiting orders from the king.

By 1:30&nbsp;pm, the [[Tuileries Palace]] had been sacked. A man wearing a ball dress belonging to the [[Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry|duchesse de Berry]], the king's widowed daughter in law and the mother of the heir to the throne, with feathers and flowers in his hair, screamed from a palace window: '''Je reçois! Je reçois!''<nowiki/>' ('I receive! I receive!') Others drank wine from the palace cellars."<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Chateaubriand |first=François-René |url=https://ebooks-bnr.com/ebooks/pdf4/chateaubriand_memoires_outre_tombe3.pdf |title=Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe |publisher=[[National Library of France]] |year=1849 |volume=3 |page=120}}; Fontaine II, 849 (letter of 9 August 1830).</ref> Earlier that day, the [[Louvre]] had fallen, even more quickly. Swiss troops of the Royal Army, confronted by the mob and under orders from Marmont not to fire unless fired upon, were withdrawn by their officers who feared a repetition of the massacre of [[Swiss Guards]] that had occurred when the [[Insurrection of 10 August 1792|Tuileries had been stormed on 10 August 1792]].

By mid-afternoon, the greatest prize, the [[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]], had been captured. The amount of looting during these three days was surprisingly small{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}; not only at the [[Louvre]]—whose paintings and ''objets d'art'' were protected by the crowd—but the Tuileries, the [[Palais de Justice, Paris|Palais de Justice]], the [[Archbishop's Palace of Paris|Archbishop's Palace]], and other places as well.

A few hours later, politicians entered the battered complex and set about establishing a provisional government. Though there would be spots of fighting throughout the city for the next few days, the revolution, for all intents and purposes, was over.